Poetry in Color Forum

In a bottle

tham — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:55:33 GMT

Time in a bottle Ship in a bottle I was in a bottle But now I am free Time keeps slipping Time be tripping But time will never be Idle, Or set...

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WATER, EARTH, WIND AND FIRE

Lycan — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:52:51 GMT

_THE GIFT_ It�s a lilting falling feather; It�s a waving maiden�s hair; It puts rain and chill together; It drifts snowflakes through the air....

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Dramatic Monologue

MsJacquiiC — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:47:24 GMT

Dramatic monologue is a poem in which an imagined speaker addresses a silent listener, usually not the reader. Examples include Robert Browning�s �My...

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To the Angelbeast by Eduardo C. Corral

FlamingFeenix — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:21:30 GMT

All that glitters isn't music. Once, hidden in tall grass, I tossed fistfuls of dirt into the air: doe after doe of leaping. You said it...

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Not Today, Not Tomorrow, How About Yesterday? By Wind

Wind — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:40:53 GMT

Not Today, Not Tomorrow, How About Yesterday? It says that history repeats itself,It says that unless we know are history we don't have a...

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Pessimistic Promiscuous Hedonistic Villainous Hero

Devil_Nephilim — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:17:44 GMT

"Pessimistic Promiscuous Hedonistic Villainous Hero." Within the junky binary spirit experiment, desire is replete with a fathered malevolence....

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Hi everyone

Devil_Nephilim — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:33:34 GMT

Hi everyone. I am a geek. Mainly into comic books and art at the moment, but i write too. My Friend Jake Minick is a spot lit member on here and he...

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Palindrome

MsJacquiiC — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:01:40 GMT

A palindrome -- coined from Greek roots palin (again) and dromos (way, direction) by English writer Ben Jonson in the 17th century -- is a word,...

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candy store

tham — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:52:07 GMT

If you could paint a picture, of you in your candy store Would it be of candy? or, "something so much more"

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The Story Of The Lonely Princess By Wind

Wind — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:31:22 GMT

The Story Of The Lonely Princess I sat here from the start of the golden waves to the leaving of the darken blues skies.I often dream of what away...

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Textual Criticism

MsJacquiiC — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:37:48 GMT

Textual criticism is a branch of literary criticism concerned with analyzing and determining the accuracy of texts; the identification and removal of...

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fireflies

moondance — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:18:20 GMT

An autistic boy drowned and the sea dreamed him back into being. The boy used the moon as a drum and the rhythms of the water. Four fireflies...

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For Malcolm X by Margaret Walker

FlamingFeenix — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:03:55 GMT

All you violated ones with gentle hearts; You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak; Whose voices echo clamors of our cool capers, And...

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I Can�t Forget You

Wind — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:57:01 GMT

I Can�t Forget You No matter how hard I try your right there with the smile that could kill any person with only a simply glance.I wanted to...

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The Hated Love

Wind — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:54:52 GMT

The Hated Love You don�t need to force yourself it fine I�ll live another day no matter how you feel about. I don�t regret anymore not being...

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Poems of R.J. Robledo

R.J. Robledo — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:41:50 GMT

*_Renaissance and a Birthday_* Happy Birthday, Dad, we say On this rightly honored day. Pomp and splendor are not here; We have love...

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to where By David Ferry

FlamingFeenix — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:23:58 GMT

http://jpicforum.info/audio-poem-of-the-day/david-ferry_to-where.mp3 Wearing a tawny lion pelt upon My spindly shoulders I carry both of them,...

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California Prodigal by Maya Angelou

FlamingFeenix — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:23:58 GMT

FOR DAVID P�B The eye follows, the land Slips upward, creases down, forms The gentle buttocks of a young Giant. In the nestle, Old...

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R.J. Robledo, editor of a paying-market poetry magazine

R.J. Robledo — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:42:22 GMT

Hello, writers of the world! My name is R.J. Robledo. I am the editor of Wisdom Crieth Without (wisdomcriethwithout.com) , a paying market online...

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Need help making a Script(Parody) to Romeo and Juliet?

dock1234 — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:10:49 GMT

Need help making a Script(Parody) to Romeo and Juliet? I thought of using burger king or something else. Do you have a script(parody) for Romeo and...

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Cretic

MsJacquiiC — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:56:04 GMT

The cretic is a Greek and Latin metrical foot consisting of a short syllable enclosed by two long syllables. Its use in English poetry is rare,...

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To Write What Has Not Been Written By Wind

Wind — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:14:11 GMT

To Write What Has Not Been Written I write what want be spoken to show what feeling can do when expressed to the fullest length. Take care...

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Happy Valentine's Day to All Friends!!

stardust — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:01:15 GMT

Howdy dear folks,:tybow::welcome3: I come here this day to wish you all have a Happy Valentine's Day with your loved ones!! Touch someone's...

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If We Were Honest by Albert Goldbarth

FlamingFeenix — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:07:28 GMT

http://jpicforum.info/audio-poem-of-the-day/albert-goldbarth_if-we-were-honest.mp3 When I tell you that cultural ritual is an artifice composed...

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Are They Shadows by Samuel Daniel

FlamingFeenix — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:07:28 GMT

Are they shadows that we see? And can shadows pleasure give? Pleasures only shadows be Cast by bodies we conceive And are made the...

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Take A Piece From My Heart By `Wind

Wind — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:14:47 GMT

Take A Piece From My Heart Take a piece and keep it close to you, take me wherever you go and you'll never lose who I am inside of...

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Literary Journal Submissions 101

MsJacquiiC — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:48:05 GMT

To submit your latest short story, essay or poem, you�ll need a cover letter�which is much different from a query. Use these tips from inside a...

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10 Tips to Avoid Clich�s in Writing

MsJacquiiC — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:50:30 GMT

It’s not enough to love our story ideas. We need to weigh their suitability as subjects for fiction, and then figure out how to go about making use...

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Poetry: Finding Your Inspiration

MsJacquiiC — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:53:25 GMT

A good poet is able to find the natural rhythms of everyday life and express them eloquently in words. But where do the ideas come from? There are...

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How To Interpret Submission Guidelines

MsJacquiiC — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:40:44 GMT

Submission guidelines pages have their own industry-specific lingo, and navigating the process of submitting your poems, stories, essays, and books...

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Symbolist Movement

MsJacquiiC — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:40:57 GMT

The symbolist movement was a group of late 19th-century French writers, including Charles Baudelair, Arthur Rimbaud and St�phane Mallarm�, who...

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Forget Me By Wind

Wind — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:29:25 GMT

Forget Me So you can live the way you always wanted,Forget me so you can live your dreams to the fullest,Forget me so we both can move on from the...

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Don't Cry by Wind

Wind — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:10:46 GMT

Don't Cry For something that you haven't lost true their form is gone the thing that you thought would bring them closer to you. Heed not...

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3 Lessons in Writing From Super Bowl 46 [2012]

MsJacquiiC — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:31:02 GMT

Like most writers, there�s not much I love more than a great story. And when you look beyond the creative new commercials, over-the-top halftime...

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Prevent The Sabotaging Of Your Writing Career

MsJacquiiC — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:03:50 GMT

Many professional writers credit their success to both hard work and to being in the right place at the right time. But sometimes, being in the right...

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Why Have Your Own Author Website?

MsJacquiiC — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:48:52 GMT

The writing community is divided into two groups: writers who have Websites and writers who don’t. Having a Website will not necessarily make a...

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Five Tips For Your First Five Pages

MsJacquiiC — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:21:31 GMT

In this article, we’re going to feature some important techniques that will help you be sure that the first five pages of your novel and/or...

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The 7 Deadly Sins of Writing

MsJacquiiC — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:50:56 GMT

In a thought-provoking ThrillerFest panel, four popular authors shared what they believe to be the deadly sins of the writing craft. Here are seven...

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With Drizzled Warm Butter, Intensely Rendered by Dick Allen

FlamingFeenix — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:46:42 GMT

What every painter knows, but most others forget is how bright colors dim in artificial light and lobster tastes most fresh the nearer to death...

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Circulate the Flames

jakeminick — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:25:49 GMT

Spiders are crawling Out of the basement again Webbing sigils From the innards Catching moments In the reflections Of smoldering intentions ...

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Cat-Snake Stagger

jakeminick — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:23:34 GMT

One two, let me chase you As your tail weaves subtle hints Of affection through the air Coaxing me Into the arms Of your blur Fading...

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Litotes

MsJacquiiC — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:13:09 GMT

Litotes -- the opposite of hyperbole (http://jpicforum.info/forum/glossary-term-day/hyperbole-6882.html) -- is a figure of speech in which deliberate...

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Can't You See

Wind — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:24:09 GMT

:sign_welcome: Can't You See How much you meant to me, how much i came to love you in the end yet you left me for...

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Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams

FlamingFeenix — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:56:38 GMT

All the complicated details of the attiring and the disattiring are completed! A liquid moon moves gently among the long branches. Thus...

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Soliloquy on an Empty Purse by Mary Jones

FlamingFeenix — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:56:05 GMT

Alas, my Purse! how lean and low! My silken Purse! what art thou now! One I beheld�but stocks will fall� When both thy ends had wherewithal. When...

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Dew by David Musgrave

FlamingFeenix — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:22:09 GMT

http://jpicforum.info/audio-poem-of-the-day/david-musgrave_dew.mp3 for Ben Fenton-Smith None are more familiar with dew ...

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Houdini by Kay Ryan

FlamingFeenix — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:23:38 GMT

http://jpicforum.info/audio-poem-of-the-day/kay-ryan_houdini.mp3 Each escape involved some art, some hokum, and at least a brief ...

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Pain

mermaidsong — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:47:02 GMT

A love like ours, supposed to be forever A love like ours was supposed to weather For better or for worse always spent together Till death do us...

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The Maldive Shark by Herman Melville

FlamingFeenix — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:31:43 GMT

About the Shark, phlegmatical one, Pale sot of the Maldive sea, The sleek little pilot-fish, azure and slim, How alert in attendance be. ...

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The Oven Bird by Robert Frost

FlamingFeenix — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:31:43 GMT

http://jpicforum.info/audio-poem-of-the-day/robert-frost_the-oven-bird.mp3 There is a singer everyone has heard, Loud, a mid-summer and a...

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Pentameter

MsJacquiiC — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:17:51 GMT

A pentameter is a line made up of five feet. A foot -- the basic unit of measurement of accentual-syllabic meter -- usually contains one stressed...

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Common measure

MsJacquiiC — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:58:59 GMT

Common metre or common measure is a quatrain (http://jpicforum.info/forum/glossary-term-day/quatrain-6616.html) (four lines) that rhymes ABAB and...

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To You by Kenneth Koch

FlamingFeenix — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:58:59 GMT

http://jpicforum.info/audio-poem-of-the-day/kenneth-koch_to-you.mp3 I love you as a sheriff searches for a walnut That will solve a murder case...

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Iraqi Boy by Elizabeth Arnold

FlamingFeenix — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:10:17 GMT

http://jpicforum.info/audio-poem-of-the-day/elizabeth-arnold_iraqi-boy.mp3 What appear to be peach-white, over-washed pajamas in the...

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Synesthesia

MsJacquiiC — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:43:28 GMT

Synesthesia in literature -- from the ancient Greek σύν (syn), "together" and αἴσθησις (aisthēsis), "sensation" -- is a blending or intermingling of...

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a couple of writes about Rain

Lane — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:05:18 GMT

I don`t know what these are. I don`t think its poetry. I just call them Statements I put them here to be on the safe side....lol Come closer,...

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proportions of a giant in monument valley by Judith Goldman

FlamingFeenix — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:52:53 GMT

http://jpicforum.info/audio-poem-of-the-day/judith-goldman_proportions-of-a-giant-in-monument-valley.mp3 inside the bottle with the ship were...

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Metaphysical poets

MsJacquiiC — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:58:47 GMT

The metaphysical poets is a term coined by the poet and critic Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century,...

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If I Could [a softer song I finished]

Lane — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:11:31 GMT

its been a while I`ve been here, I have been laid-up for a while. this is the latest song I`ve finished thought I come in and see what you all think....

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JPiC Now Online After Censorship Protest

MsJacquiiC — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:06:10 GMT

This note was sent to all registered members on January 22, 2011 http://jpicforum.info/notes/note4.html

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